Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based Founder operating in the Hardware space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jack Dorsey
Co-Founder & CEO of Square
Jack Dorsey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Twitter Ventures
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About Cash App, Square, Twitter Ventures: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
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Valery Vavilov
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Bitfury Group
Seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in information technology and business management. Original founding member of BitFury. Assumed the role of BitFury CEO in 2011. Prior to that, held numerous technology and business leadership positions. MS in Computer Science, Riga Transport & Telecommunication University.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Stina Ehrensvard
CEO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Internationally awarded entrepreneur, innovator and speaker with an unfaltering energy and passion for making the internet safer for all. Education in industrial product design at the University of the Arts, Crafts and Design, Sweden.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Jakob Ehrensvard
CTO & Co-Founder of Yubico
Built his first computer at the age of 15, self-employed software and hardware engineer since 19, designed the security system for Sweden’s largest nuclear plant at 25. Leading inventor of the YubiKey and FIDO/WebAuthn standards.
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About Yubico: Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Lars Brubaker
Co-Founder & CEO of MatterHackers
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About MatterHackers: 3D Printing Software, Hardware, & Supplies
Kenneth Duda
Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Software Engineering of Arista Networks
Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About Arista Networks: Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Alexis Houssou
Founder & Managing Partner of HCVC
Alexis is the managing partner of Hardware Club which he co-founded in 2015. Through its unique $50M early-stage fund, Hardware Club invests in early-stage full-stack startups globally. Alexis took part in launching several initiatives including the Hello Tomorrow and The Family. He sits on the boards of companies including Cowboy, Remedee Labs, Norbert Health and several stealth companies.
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About Elephants & Ventures, HCVC, The Hardware Club, The Hardware Club: HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm investing in companies automating and digitizing the physical world.
Stephen Balaban
Co-Founder & CEO of Lambda
Stephen Balaban is the Co-Founder & CEO at Lambda.
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About Lambda, Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Michael Balaban
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering of Lambda
Michael Balaban is the Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Lambda.
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About Lambda: Lambda provides Deep Learning servers, workstations, and GPU cloud services to Microsoft, Tencent, MIT, Princeton, Airbus, and more.
Ken Kalopsis
Co-Founder + Vice-Chair of Startech.Com
Ken Kalopsis is co-founder of StarTech.com and as the company’s most senior ambassador, he maintains strong partnerships with key customers. Ken also spearheads StarTech.com’s global customer expansion so you will frequently find him at airports and hotels around the world. As a key member and contributor to the Executive team, Ken provides critical input and direction to StarTech.com. Having been actively involved with all aspects of the company throughout the years, he knows the business inside and out – with a particular focus in sales and operations. As a member of TEC Canada, Ken provides insights into company best practices and continuous improvement. Ken has a longstanding record of community involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Grand Theatre Foundation and the Greater London International Airport. He also served as Executive Director of the Canadian Economic Development Assistance for South Sudan (CEDASS) after serving as a director for the previous five years. Ken earned a degree in History & Political Science from The University of Western Ontario.
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About Startech.Com: StarTech.com operates as a manufacturer of hard-to-find connectivity parts.
Vijay Chattha
Founder and CEO of VSC
Vijay Chattha joined VSC Consulting as Founder / CEO in 2002.
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About BlackMahal, The100kPledge, VSC, Wareness.io: We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.
Jennifer Gill Roberts
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Grit Ventures
Startup investor, entrepreneur and technologist with a passion for launching startups, both for-profit and non-profit in Silicon Valley. Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Grit Ventures. Grit believes artificial intelligence is changing the world. We fund pre-seed and seed-stage Robotics + AI startups that are disrupting major verticals like construction, transportation, manufacturing, agtech, and logistics.
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About Grit Ventures: Grit Ventures invests the Clean Machine Revolution with investment hubs in the Bay Area, Denver, Austin, and Pittsburgh.
Kelly Coyne
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Grit Ventures
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About Grit Ventures: Grit Ventures invests the Clean Machine Revolution with investment hubs in the Bay Area, Denver, Austin, and Pittsburgh.
Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Blue River Technology
Jorge is the co-founder and CEO of Blue River Technology Inc. (www.bluerivert.com), a start-up company that intends to revolutionize weeding and dramatically reduce chemical use.
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About Blue River Technology: Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries.
Kelly Peng
Founder, CEO & CTO (Electrical / Optical / Software Engineer) of Kura Technologies
Kelly Peng is the CEO, CTO, and Founder of Kura Technologies.
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About Greylock, Kura Technologies, Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab), Radio Astronomy Lab, Stanford University, The AAT Project (American’s Amazing Teen): Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Nicholas Woodman
Owner, CEO & Founder of GoPro
While the eight-person staff of GoPro was enjoying the success of their first HD HERO camera in 2009, founder and CEO Nick Woodman realized one thing: to support his vision, he was going to need a bigger staff. But before Woodman could think bigger, he had to start out small. After receiving a degree in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, Woodman founded an online promotions company, Fun Bug. In 2001, Woodman sold Fun Bug and took off surfing and traveling the world. The decision inspired more than the personal – Woodman’s passion for surfing sparked the idea to create the now-popular wearable and gear mountable camera and in 2002, Woodman founded GoPro. After years of research and planning, the company released its first product, the GoPro HERO, a 35mm film-based camera that was worn on the wrist. Made up of some of Woodman’s friends and family members, the early GoPro team established the company as a true innovator by continually iterating on the product, moving from a film-based camera to a digital still and video camera. A lifetime extreme sports enthusiast, Woodman was learning how to race cars when he was compelled to move the camera from his wrist to the top of his car. This simple idea led to an array of camera mounting devices – for everything from helmets to surfboards, and even dog collars.
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About GoPro: GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Patrick Chandler
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of FightCamp
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. Currently running the FightCamp marketing team, deep knowledge in Paid Social (Facebook, Instagram), Content Marketing (Youtube, SEO), Website Optimization (CRO), Email marketing, TV advertising and Influencer marketing. Also created the attribution modeling framework and the data analysis system we use. On the technical side, was previously Chief Data Scientist and have experience in Machine Learning, IMU sensors, kinematics / 3D motion tracking, startups and data science.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Alexandre Marcotte
Co-Founder and CTO of FightCamp
Mr. Marcotte graduated from Sherbrooke University with an Electrical Engineering degree with a major in microelectronics. While launching Hykso with Mr. Zahar, Mr. Marcotte lead his team to the international electric car competition Eco Shell Marathon in Texas, USA. Mr. Marcotte’s team broke the world record for the most economic electric prototype ever built and their car, E-Volve received much attention by the press.
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About FightCamp: FightCamp provides on-demand boxing and HIIT workouts with motion trackers on wrists that track every punch thrown and every rep completed.
Vikas Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wonder Workshop
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About Wonder Workshop: Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
David Holz
Co-Founder & CTO of Leap Motion
David Holz is the CTO & co-founder of Leap Motion. Prior to founding the company, David contracted for NASA’s Langley Research Center and conducted neuroscience research while at The Max Planck Institute. He studied Applied Math at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ultimately leaving his PhD program to co-found Leap Motion in 2010.
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About Leap Motion: Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Renee James
Founder , Chairman & CEO of Ampere Computing
Renée James is President of Intel Corporation and is part of the company’s Executive Office. Renée has broad knowledge of the computing industry, spanning hardware, manufacturing, security, software and services, which she developed through product R&D leadership positions at Intel and as chairman of Intel’s software subsidiaries. Renée has also been an overall leader in the development and implementation of the corporate strategy. During her 25 plus year career at Intel, Renée has spearheaded the company’s strategic expansion into providing proprietary and open source software and services for applications in enterprise, security and cloud-based computing. In her most recent role as executive vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group, she was responsible for Intel’s global software and services strategy, revenue, profit, and product R&D. In this role, Renée led Intel’s strategic relationships with the world’s leading device and enterprise operating systems companies. Previously, she was the director and COO of Intel Online Services, Intel’s datacenter services business. Early in her career Renée also served as chief of staff for former Intel CEO Andy Grove. Renée is Vice Chair of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. She served 7 years as independent director on the VMware Inc. Board of Directors and was a member of the Audit Committee. She is also a member of the C200 and a non-executive director of Sabre Corporation. Most recently Renée was nominated to Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business list, ranking 21st and was named on Forbes 100 list at number 37. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
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About Ampere Computing, Intel, The Carlyle Group: Ampere Computing develops data center processors for cloud servers.
Phillip Walker
CEO, Co-Founder, Board Member of Transcend Robotics
A serial entrepreneur who values hitting milestones for investors and producing scalable results.
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About Transcend Robotics: Transcend Robotics is a startup that develops ground-based mobile robots.
Alan Chan
Co-Founder & CEO of Joy
Alan Chan is the Cofounder & CEO of Joy (https://joy.co)
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About Joy: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Liam Casey
Founder & CEO of PCH International
Liam is the founder and CEO of PCH. He has lived 23 years in China and is recognized as a thought leader in new product introductions, supply chain orchestration, sustainability and startup initiatives. He is on the boards of the California College for the Arts, and UC Berkeley Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
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About PCH International: PCH provides a unique, intelligent, end-to-end product development and supply chain orchestration platform for the world’s best brands.
Cameron Teitelman
Founder, Chairman, and head of admissions and oversee investment vehicles of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
Cameron Teitelman is the Founder and Chairman of StartX, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that runs an accelerator for Stanford affiliated entrepreneurs. Under his management, StartX has supported more than 1,100+ founders building 500+ companies. StartX companies have raised over $3.3B to date. In 2013, the Stanford-StartX Fund was launched. To date, SSF has invested in 250 StartX companies across 400+ rounds, investing $130 million in capital.
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Dan Ha
Co-Founder, Sr. Managing Director of StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
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About StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund): StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Darren Bechtel
Founder & Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures
Darren Bechtel is the founder and Managing Director of Brick & Mortar Ventures, the leading sector-specific venture capital fund focused on emerging technologies to improve the way we design, build, and maintain our built environment. Darren has been the single most active early stage investor in AEC and FM tech over the past five years, with his first four construction tech deals being Seed round investments into PlanGrid, BuildZoom, BuildingConnected, and Rhumbix. Since then, Darren and the Brick & Mortar team have invested in over 25 startups aiming to improve productivity, safety, and environmental impact of constructing and caring for the built environment. Darren Bechtel brings over 7 years of engineering, product and architectural design, and construction management professional experience to the Brick & Mortar team, as well as over 8 years of venture investing as the founder and managing director of South Park Ventures. Darren holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Product Design focus from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Brick & Mortar Ventures: Brick & Mortar Ventures identifies, backs, enables emerging companies developing innovative software hardware solutions for the industries.
Alexander Green
Founder of Symmetry Labs
Founder at Symmetry Labs
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About Symmetry Labs: Next-Generation Lighting Software and Hardware
Ben Morrow
Founder of Symmetry Labs
Founder at Symmetry Labs
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About Symmetry Labs: Next-Generation Lighting Software and Hardware
Hugo Fiennes
Founder & CEO of Electric Imp
Hugo Fiennes is CEO and Co-founder of Electric Imp, an innovative and powerful Internet of Things-based cloud service and hardware platform that makes it simple to connect devices to the Internet. Hugo began developing hardware and software for early ARM-based computers in the late 1980s and has been building useful and successful things ever since. After designing many MP3 players for Rio, Hugo led Apple’s hardware team through the first four generations of the groundbreaking iPhone, and was then an early advisor to Nest Labs, architecting the hardware for their first thermostat product before starting Electric Imp in 2011. He graduated first honors from University of Warwick in Coventry, England with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
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About Electric Imp: Electric Imp provides a secure IoT platform, connecting cloud services with the real world
Hugo de Gentile
Co-Founder & CEO of Willo
Hugo de Gentile is the Co-Founder and CEO at Willo
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About Willo: Willo develops technology in oral health that automatically empowers everyone to achieve the best at-home clean possible.
Sean Lie
Chief Hardware Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Sean is Chief Hardware Architect and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Sean was Lead Hardware Architect of the IO virtualization fabric ASIC at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired by AMD, Sean was made an AMD Fellow and Chief Data Center Architect. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at AMD in their advanced architecture team. He holds a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has authored 16 patents in computer architecture.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Chief System Architect & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Jean-Philippe (J.P.) is Chief System Architect at Cerebras Systems. Before co-founding Cerebras, J.P. was Senior Hardware Architect at rack-scale flash array startup DSSD (acquired by EMC). Prior to DSSD, J.P. was Lead System Architect at SeaMicro where he designed three generations of fabric-based computer systems. Earlier in his career, J.P. was Director of Hardware Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent and Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and has authored 24 patents.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Michael James
Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Michael is Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Michael was Lead Software Architect responsible for distributed system software at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired, Michael was made an AMD Fellow and Lead Software Architect. Throughout his career, he has designed operating systems, compilers, real-time feedback controls systems, signal process, and recognition systems. Michael has degrees in Molecular Neurobiology, Mathematics, and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Andrew Feldman
CEO & Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems
Andrew is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds an MBA from Stanford University.
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About Cerebras Systems: Cerebras Systems develops computing chips with the sole purpose of accelerating AI.
Gabriel Halimi
Co-Founder & CEO of Flo Technologies
Gabriel is a former law partner turned corporate operations executive, with extensive startup experience, including in business development and brand marketing.
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Henry Halimi
Co-Founder, Chairman of Flo Technologies
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About Flo Technologies: Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Brian Gerkey
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Open Robotics
Brian Gerkey is CEO of Open Robotics. Prior to joining Open Robotics, Brian was Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Previously, Brian was a Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI, and before that, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003, his M.S. in Computer Science from USC in 2000, and his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, with a secondary major in Mathematics and a minor in Robotics and Automation, from Tulane University in 1998. Among other accolades, Brian was recognized by MIT Technology Review with the TR35 award and by Silicon Valley Business Journal with their 40 Under 40 award.
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About Open Robotics: Open Robotics support the development, distribution, and adoption of open software and hardware for use in robotics.
Blake Commagere
Co-Founder and COO of Vault12
Blake Commagere is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture. He created the social gaming category by building some of the biggest apps ever (over 50 Million players) on Facebook, including the iconic games Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Blake wrote and designed the first version of Causes on Facebook, which has over 120 Million users and has raised over $80 million for various charities. Currently, Blake is the Founder & CEO of MediaSpike – a company that is building the first truly social applications for Virtual Reality.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Max Skibinsky
CEO and Co-Founder of Vault12
Max Skibinsky is serial entrepreneur, angel investor & start-up mentor. He is currently a Venture Partner with Andreessen Horowitz. Max was founder and CEO of Hive7, a social gaming company known for its smash hit game “Knighthood” that grown to 6M players on Facebook. In 2010 Hive7 was sold to Playdom/Disney. Later Max become one of the co-founders of Inporia that secured funding from YCombinator, SV Angels, Clearstone & NEA to launch number of consumer products that used machine learning algorithms for online and mobile e-commerce. Max is also one of resident mentors of 500 Startups. Max holds Masters degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University. When not designing, brainstorming, advising, and building startups Max can be found flying in general vicinity of Palo Alto airspace.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Phillip Raub
Founder/Board Member of b8ta
Phillip Raub is the CEO of Model No. and also the co-founder and board member at b8ta, a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for product makers and exciting for consumers. In his role at b8ta, he oversaw the day to day operations of the company. Previous to b8ta, Phillip held executive roles at Nest/Google, where he led the Global Channel Marketing team. Prior to Nest, Phillip spent six years at Nintendo as the Director of Retail Marketing. In addition to his years of experience at Nest and Nintendo, Phillip held various leadership roles in marketing at Gap Inc.
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About b8ta, Model No.: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
William Mintun
Co-Founder, EVP of Operations of b8ta
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About b8ta: B8ta is a software-powered retailer designed to make physical retail accessible for all.
Andreas E. Haas
Co-Founder, CEO and Lead Engineer of Modbook
Andreas E. Haas co-founded Axiotron Corp. in 2005 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Mr. Haas has 18 years of extensive experience in business management, marketing & product management, as well as in hard- & software development. Mr. Haas co-founded Their World Live, Inc. and served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Haas also held various management positions at Apple Computer in Europe including Apple’s Portable product lines, the Newton Systems Group, and Apple Third Party Product Marketing. He served for Apple’s European Headquarters in Paris, France as Manager of the European Product Management for Professional Desktop and Server Systems heading the European Product Management teams for Desktop and Server products. He has been Director of Axiotron Corp. since August 2008. Mr. Haas holds B.S in Management Information Systems from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in Bavaria in 1994.
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About Modbook: Welcome to the home of the Modbook Pro, a Wacom Penabled tablet computer and the one and only Mac tablet.
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO of Fictiv
Dave Evans co-founded Fictiv and serves as its CEO in pursuit of his mission to democratize manufacturing. Fictiv’s virtual manufacturing platform pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Prior to Fictiv, Dave was the first hire at Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab which is part of Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering Division. While there, Dave was Lead Hardware Engineer on OpenXC, an open source software and hardware platform to extend customer’s vehicles with custom applications and pluggable modules. In this role, he manufactured hardware for 500+ unit production runs including injection molding, PCB fabrication, box design and assembly. He was also responsible for designing, prototyping, and sourcing hardware builds at the Lab. Dave also proudly led the Stanford University Affiliates project for Ford in the mechanical engineering senior design course.
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Dan Ryan
Co-Founder & CEO of VergeSense
Dan Ryan is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at VergeSense.
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About VergeSense: VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Johnny Hou
Founder / CEO of NZXT
Johnny Ho is a Founder and CEO at NZXT. He is also Co-Founder at Acaia. Mr. Ho received a bachelor of science in Computer Engineering at UC Irvine.
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About Acaia, NZXT: NZXT builds PC hardware for enthusiasts and gamers globally.
James Tamplin
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
James has founded 4 startups. His last one, Firebase, was acquired by Google, where he leads product for Firebase as a part of Google Cloud Platform.
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About Founder Collective: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Zach Klein
Founder Partner of Founder Collective
Zach Klein is co-founder and CEO of DIY. He was a partner and led product design at Connected Ventures, the creators of CollegeHumor. In 2006, he and his partners sold a major stake of Connected Ventures to IAC. Zach is best known for co-founding and designing [Vimeo](/organization/vimeo), a popular video-sharing community emphasizing authenticity and quality. Time Magazine’s CEO Shimon Haber named Vimeo one of the web’s Top 50 sites. He led product at [Boxee](/organization/boxee), an open-source interface for televisions making it easy to watch shows, movies and homemade videos from the Internet. Zach also serves as a director on the boards of Skillshare and Svpply.
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About DIY.org, Dwell, Dwell, Founder Collective, Svpply: Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Chad Rigetti
Founder & CEO of Rigetti Computing
Chad Rigetti is the founder and CEO of Rigetti Computing, a full-stack quantum computing startup based in Berkeley and Fremont, Calif. The company’s product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for hybrid classical-quantum computing. Founded in 2013, Rigetti has raised over $70 million from investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Vy Capital, and has over 50 patent applications on file. Chad holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Regina.
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About Rigetti Computing: Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits.
Charles Michael Yim
Founder and CEO of Breathometer
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About Breathometer, CMY Ventures, Cohabit Labs, Inc., Cointopia, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, VitaBowl, Walt Disney Television: Breathometer develops a breath analysis technology that helps people make smarter decisions and improve their lives.
Ari Roisman
Co-Founder & CEO of Wristcam
A Mechanical and Energy Engineer by training and passionate entrepreneur at heart, Ari has founded several profitable ventures in a variety of industries. Since founding in 2012, he served as CEO of Glide, the pioneering video messenger for smartphones and smartwatches that supports millions of users and billions of live video exchanges. In 2016, Ari teamed up with an early Apple Watch program manager to develop Wristcam, an ultra-compact Camera System made for Apple Watch. Ari holds a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and was selected by MIT Technology Review as one of 35 global innovators under 35.
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Matt Frischer
Co-Founder & CMO of Wristcam
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About Wristcam, Wristcam: Computer Vision for Wearables
Fred Chang
Founder and Chairman of Newegg
Fred Chang has been the President of China operations of Newegg Inc. Fred Chang has been Global Chief Executive Officer of Newegg, Inc. and serves as its Chairman. He co-founded Newegg, Inc. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Newegg Inc. He served as Vice Chairman of Newegg, Inc. He served as director and the acting President of Newegg China. he served as director of Newegg, Inc. Prior to forming Newegg, Fred Chang founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of ABS Computer Technologies, Newegg predecessor entity. Fred Chang holds a Bachelors degree in Applied Mathematics from the Chinese Culture University of Taiwan.
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About : Newegg is an online retail store that offers computer hardware, software, and accessories.
Zach Supalla
Founder & CEO of Particle
Zach Supalla is the founder and CEO of Particle, an IoT startup that’s making it easier to build, connect and manage internet-connected hardware products deployed at massive scale. Supalla earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MEM (masters in engineering management) from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern. Before Particle, Supalla worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy, operations and product development. He is a graduate of HAX, the world’s first, and most prolific hardware accelerator.
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About Particle: Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Meena Sankaran
Founder & CEO of KETOS
Meena Sankaran is an accomplished technology executive, business leader and evangelist driving global strategy and innovation for customer success through a variety of leadership roles. She has been a key influencer and executed on product strategy with her unique blend of business and technical acumen to customers worldwide across organizations of varied sizes. As a Social Entrepreneur, she believes in leveraging technology for challenges that bring about global change and deliver solutions to impact at a grass roots level. She has a BE in Electronics Engineering from India and MS in Electrical Engg from UTA, Texas. Her Leadership in Ketos’s engineering innovation, product & business strategy, team discipline and strong culture are instrumental in the path to success
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About KETOS: KETOS provides hardware and software analytics solutions and real-time data for usage and flow across water systems.
Rahul Dewan
Founder & CEO of Duet Display
Founder at Duet Display
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About Duet Display: Duet allows users to use their iDevice as an extra display for Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable.
William Andregg
CEO, Co-Founder & President of Fathom Computing
William Andregg is the Co-Founder at Fathom Radiant.
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About Fathom Computing: Fathom Computing is building optics-based hardware to run artificial intelligence with unprecedented performance.
Kiran Malwankar
Co-Founder of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
Kiran Malwankar is the Founder of Pavilion Data Systems and brings extensive experience in flash memory systems, PCI express architectures, as well as storage area networking. Prior to Pavilion Data, Kiran was Director of Hardware Engineering at Violin Memory, where he led the team responsible for the development of Violin’s next-generation flash controller architecture. Prior to Violin, Kiran led the hardware engineering team at Aprius, a provider of PCIe-based I/O virtualization systems which was acquired by FusionIO. Kiran was also part of the founding team of Andiamo, a spin-off that Cisco created to disrupt the storage networking market, and also held senior engineering roles at Nishan Systems, Stoke, and KLA-Tencor. Kiran holds a degree in MSEE from IIT Bombay (now Mumbai).
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About : Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
VR Satish
Co-Founder & CTO of Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
VR Satish is the Chief Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise storage software products. Prior to joining Pavilion Data, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures.Satish was an early employee of Veritas and later served as the Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer for the Information & Availability Group at Symantec Corporation prior to joining Artiman. His current areas of interest include distributed computing, information-centric storage architectures and virtualization. Satish holds multiple patents in storage management, and earned his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida.
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About Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.: Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Rosanna Myers
Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics
Rosanna is the Co-Founder of Carbon Robotics.
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About Carbon Robotics: Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
Robert K. Prud’homme
Co-Founder of Vorbeck Materials
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About Vorbeck Materials: Vorbeck Materials is a manufacturer of graphene and graphene enabled products and solutions.
Jeffrey O’Neill
Founder/CEO of Zephyr Aerospace
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About flyClever, Zephyr Aerospace: Zephyr Aerospace designs affordable lie-flat seating solutions for transportation companies.
Pete Foley
Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium
Pete Foley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ascenium.
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About Ascenium: Ascenium is a fabless semiconductor startup that develops a general-purpose microprocessor.
Roderick de Rode
Founder & CEO of Spinn
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About Spinn: Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Manik Suri
Founder & CEO of Therma
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About Therma, Truman National Security Project: Therma is combating climate change by eliminating waste from the global refrigeration system
Eric Sanchez
Co-Founder, CEO of Revl
Eric Sanchez is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Bruce Pla
Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer of Revl
Bruce Pla is a Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Matt Stern
Co-Founder & COO of Mira
Matt Stern is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Mira. He is also one of the thirty inaugural students in Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young’s Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at USC.
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Benjamin Taft
Co-Founder & CEO of Mira
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About Mira: Mira is an operator of a mobile augmented reality company used to provide industrial-grade wearables and hands-free software technologies.
Joe Scalisi
Founder & CTO & Chief Innovation Officer of SkyBell
Joe is the creative genius and inventor behind SkyBell and its entire suite of products, which won a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award in 2014. Joe holds 110 patents in Technology and is currently ranked at 241 of 1.5 million IoT patent holders. The video doorbell and related home security products is one of the hottest segments of the IoT space. Joe’s innovations have disrupted many markets dominated by industry giants. Joe’s patented technology has been or is used by Apple, AT&T, US Air Force, Honeywell, ADT, Alarm.com, Nest, Amazon and Comcast.
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About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
Desiree Mejia
COO & Co-Founder of SkyBell
Desiree leads SkyBell’s supply chain operations and contract manufacturing as well as overseeing the development and rollout of SkyBell Connect (the proprietary back-office system which manages all deployed devices). In addition, Desiree is SkyBell’s Principal Executive with respect to growing existing customer relationships, Customer Support and Order Fulfillment. Prior to starting up SkyBell, she served as the COO of LBT, a GPS tracking solutions company.
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About SkyBell: SkyBell HD is making homes and neighborhoods safer with a Video Doorbell that sends live video of your front door to a smartphone.
James Pickard
Co-Founder of Voltera
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About Voltera: Voltera’s circuit board printer allows designers to go from concept to creation in a matter of minutes. Custom circuits, just press print!
Patrick Lo
Co-Founder and CEO of NETGEAR
Patrick Lo is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Netgear.
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About NETGEAR, NetgearStore – India: Netgear designs, develops, and markets networking products for home users and small businesses worldwide.
Kirk Hawkins
Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft
Kirk Hawkins is the Founder & CEO of ICON Aircraft.
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About ICON Aircraft: ICON Aircraft manufactures consumer-friendly, safe, technologically advanced aircrafts.
Bertrand Serlet
Founder of Fungible
Bertrand is the Co-Founder of Fungible. Prior to Fungible, Bertrand founded Upthere (acquired by Western Digital), and before that was SVP of Software Engineering at Apple reporting to Steve Jobs. Bertrand started his career at INRIA, a French research institute, and joined Xerox PARC, where he worked on VLSI design aids for four years. He then joined NeXT in 1988 and proceeded to Apple when it acquired NeXT in 1997. At Apple, Bertrand led the development of Mac OS X, and started the offshoot of Mac OS X that became iOS. Bertrand managed a team of up to 1,500 engineers, shipped many releases of Mac OS X and of related products, took an active role in external communications, and personally developed APIs that form the basis of Cocoa (MacOS) and CocoaTouch (iOS). Bertrand graduated with a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France, and holds about 40 patents.
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About Fungible: Fungible creates hardware and software platforms for data centers.
Dom Sagolla
Co-Founder, Executive Producer & Director of Developer Camp
Dom Sagolla is an entrepreneur and author in San Francisco. Dom helped create Twitter, the Obama ’08 iPhone App, and introduced the founding engineers at Square. He is co-founder of Developer Camp, a startup accelerator and hackathon event series. Dom is author of 140 Characters: A style guide for the short form (Wiley, 2009) and Tech Wild: Mapping the frontier of technology and youth (https://techwild.co).
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About Archipelo, Developer Camp, Kryptonic: Developer Camp is the world’s best hackathon, committed to inclusion, diversity, and equality in the tech sector.
Matthew Schwab
Co-Founder of Ancient Ritual
Matthew Schwab is currently the Co-founder of Ancient Ritual. He was previously the President and Co-founder of BloomThat, an on demand-delivery company that specializes in the curation and delivery of flowers and thoughtful gestures. In his previous role at Media Arts Lab, he oversaw the development and execution of Apple’s national advertising campaigns and was part of a small team responsible for pitching to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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About Ancient Ritual: In a world obsessed with speeding up, we’re reinventing how humans slow down.
David Bladow
Co-Founder of Ancient Ritual
David Bladow is the founder of Ancient Ritual.
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About Ancient Ritual: In a world obsessed with speeding up, we’re reinventing how humans slow down.
Noyan Berker
Founder & CEO of Mimiq
Noyan Berker is the Founder & CEO at Smart Mimic .
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About Mimiq: Mimiq Inc. (formerly Smart Mimic) is a Silicon Valley company that develops fifth-generation, long range, connected consumer devices.
Amy Kao
Co-Founder & President / Chief Marketing Office of RxAll
Amy is a graduate of the Yale School of Management MBA program and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She has +5 years of management consulting experience with global pharmaceutical companies in New York and Asia, and has a strong focus on go-to-market strategy in emerging markets.
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About RxAll: RxAll is a Deep Learning-Hyperspectral IoT Platform for the authentication and real-time global tracking of quality of drugs.
George Minassian
CO-Founder & CEO of Crossbar
Dr. George Minassian has been a co-founder and CEO of Crossbar since 2010.A seasoned veteran of the semiconductor memory industry, Dr. Minassian brings Crossbar 25 years of experience in systems, logic design, new business development, and product development. Over his extensive career, Dr. Minassian has a proven track record of developing commercially successful, leading-edge products. From 2002 to 2010, Dr. Minassian held a variety of positions at Spansion, a leading innovator of Flash memory solutions, most recently as vice president of System and Software Engineering where he led the $1.2 billion Flash Memory business targeting the cellular wireless market segment.While at Spansion, he developed and established new industry standards in emerging technologies such as PISMO and achieved a successful track record for large-scale product development and management. From 1999-2002, Dr. Minassian was director of Wireless Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices, a microprocessor leader, where he developed the industry’s first CMOS RF process and complete 802.11b/a chipset and reference designs.Dr. Minassian holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.
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About Crossbar: Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
James Segil
President and Co-Founder of Openpath
Serial Entrepreneur & Technology executive with demonstrated success at creating, growing and turning around small businesses. Adept at managing priorities, building businesses and pulling together a team around a common vision. Currently he is Vice President of Access Control at Motorola Solutions, which acquired his company Openpath Security in July of 2021. Openpath was the 4th company James has led or founded and sold over the past 20+ years. James was the President and co-founder of Openpath Security from 2016-2021. Formerly he was Chief Marketing Officer for Verizon Digital Media Services and responsible for all marketing and alliances for this division of Verizon. James came to Verizon by way of the company he co-founded, EdgeCast Networks, which was acquired by Verizon in December of 2013 for a reported $400 million value. James was co-founder and President of EdgeCast Networks Inc., one of the world’s leading Content Delivery Networks. EdgeCast has built a global edge network that carries more than 5% of global internet traffic and is the CDN technology behind many of the web’s biggest cloud hosting and telecommunications companies (www.edgecast.com). He is the former President & Co-founder of KnowledgeBase Solutions Inc, now a division of Talisma Corporation (now called Moxie Software). He successfully built this privately funded Enterprise Software company into a profitable industry leading company. KnowledgeBase was ranked by Forrester as the Industry Leader in eService and was acquired by Talisma Corp in March 2005 (www.talisma.com). He is also the former COO for Virtualis Systems Inc (rebranded Hosting.com), which became a division of Allegiance Telecom. He successfully ran this venture backed hosting company between years 1999-2000 (www.hosting.com) selling it to Allegiance Telecom in 2000. Formerly he was a product manager for the Hot Wheels Brand at Mattel Toys. Prior to that, Associate Product Manager for the Boys Toys division for all markets outside of the US (www.mattel.com).
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About Openpath: Openpath Security offers a mobile and cloud enabled access control system for businesses and landlords.
Grace Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Common Networks
Grace is the CPO and co-founder of Common Networks. She was previously at Square, where she was the Director of Product on the flagship Square Register product and managed a team of 70+ engineers, product managers, and designers. She alo led teams responsible for the launches of Square Japan and Australia, Square Invoices, new Square card readers, Instant Deposits, and numerous retail, restaurants & services features.Before Square, Grace was at Google PMing the Offers product and working on Sales Strategy and Operations. She started her career as a Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Grace has a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Zach Brock
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of Common Networks
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About Common Networks: Common Networks is a wireless internet service provider that brings fiber-class internet to homes.
Alex Wright-Gladstein
Co-Founder & CSO of Ayar Labs
Alex is an entrepreneur with a passion for addressing climate change. Prior to founding Sphere, she co-founded and was founding CEO of Ayar Labs, which makes data centers and supercomputers faster and more energy-efficient by using light to move data between chips. She has also been the energy entrepreneurship practice leader at MIT, and an energy efficiency program manager and energy markets specialist at smart grid company EnerNOC. She received an MBA from MIT and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Tufts University.
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About Ayar Labs, Sphere: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Vladimir Stojanovic
Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs
Vladimir is the Chief Architect of Ayar Labs. Prior to founding Ayar Labs, he led the team that designed the world’s first processor to communicate using light. Vladimir is also an associate professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, and was one of the key developers of the Rambus high-speed link technology. He holds a PhD from Stanford University.
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About Ayar Labs, University of California Berkeley: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Mark Wade
President, CTO, and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs
Mark Wade is the Ayar Labs’ President, Chief Technology Officer, and Co-Founder.
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About Ayar Labs: Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
István Lőrincz
President & Co-Founder of Morpheus Space
István is co-founder of Morpheus Space. A serial entrepreneur with expertise in aerospace engineering, aircraft propulsion systems, space systems engineering, space propulsion systems, software development, quantum physics and artificial intelligence.
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About Morpheus Space: Morpheus Space is disrupting the NewSpace industry by introducing Agile Constellations, a fusion between cutting edge propulsion and AI.
David Hughes
CEO & Founder of Silver Peak
David Hughes founded Silver Peak Systems in 2004 after a year as Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. Through 2013 Hughes drove innovation as CTO, and then more recently, as CEO he has led Silver Peak beyond WAN optimization into the emerging SD-WAN market. Prior to Silver Peak, Hughes was a vice president and general manager at BlueLeaf Networks (2000-2002), where his team developed a unique network switching and transmission system. From 1996 to 2000, Hughes held several positions at Cisco Systems, including director of system architecture for the BPX and MGX product lines, and senior director of product management for the Multi-Service Switching Business Unit. Earlier, Hughes was a key engineering contributor at StrataCom, an early pioneer in frame relay and ATM, which was acquired by Cisco in 1996. Before StrataCom, David worked as an engineer for BNR Japan/Northern Telecom Japan Inc. Hughes has been awarded more than 50 patents in areas including data acceleration, routing and packet switching, control and scheduling algorithms. Hughes earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Wollongong University, Australia, and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from Auckland University, New Zealand.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Faraj Aalaei
Co-Founder of Centillium Communications
Faraj Aalaei is the Founding General Partner of Candou Ventures & he attended Wentworth Institute of Technology in 2016.
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About Candou Ventures, Centillium Communications: Centillium Communications designs, develops and supplies integrated programmable SoC solutions that enable high-speed broadband access.
Jason Wong
Founder & CEO of Omnicharge
Jason Wong is the Founder & CEO at Omnicharge.
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About Omnicharge: Omnicharge is the only AC/DC battery that can quick charge any device via 3-pronged plug and usb.
Jennifer Dickson
Co-Founder and CDO of Acre Designs
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About Acre Designs: Acre creates beautiful, simple and smart net zero homes.
Hugo Mercier
Founder of Dreem
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About Dreem: Dreem is a neurotechnology company composed of sleep pioneers, a team of experts fascinated by science, technology and design.
Colin Billings
Founder and CEO of Orro
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About Orro: Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
Alexei Marchenkov
Founder and CEO of Bleximo
Alexei has initiated and led several science, technology and commercial projects. He has over two decades of research experience in condensed matter and low temperature physics. Between 2001 and 2009, he was an assistant and associate professor in the School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Bleximo: Bleximo is aimed at building quantum accelerators to revolutionize the way complex business problems are solved.
Joe Britt
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Afero
Joe’s Silicon Valley career began 25 years ago at Apple, and has included senior engineering roles at 3DO, Catapult Entertainment, and WebTV. Joe was the first WebTV employee, and he built the OS used in every WebTV set top box. After WebTV Joe founded Danger Research in 2000 with co-founders Andy Rubin and Matt Hershenson. At Danger, Joe led the design of the hiptop smartphone (sold in the US as the T-Mobile Sidekick). Danger was purchased by Microsoft in 2008 for $500MM. Prior to founding Afero, Joe spent several years at Google working on Android hardware.
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About Afero: Afero is a comprehensive and secure platform for cloud-connected devices in any industry.
Shin Matsumura
Founder & Chief Business Officer of Afero
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About Afero: Afero is a comprehensive and secure platform for cloud-connected devices in any industry.
Anush Elangovan
Founder & CEO of Nod
With over 15 years of experience building innovative products, 30 patents pending or issued, and a couple of legendary mountains climbed, Anush is one of those “impossible is nothing” types. Prior to founding Nod Labs, he was part of the original Chromebooks team at Google, and a lead engineer at Agnilux, FireEye and Cisco.
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About Nod: Nod seamlessly transforms your movements into commands. Nod accurately tracks your body and convey intent and identity to your environment.
Kyle Doerksen
Founder & CEO of Future Motion
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About Future Motion: The Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard
